With DEFCON’s Voting Village in the rear view mirror, Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks about the security of elections systems with two experts: Bev Harris, the founder of Black Box Voting, and Eric Hodge, the director of consulting at CyberScout, which is working with the Board of Elections in Kentucky and in other states to help secure elections systems.
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Hero WannaCry Researcher Charged over Links to Kronos Trojan
In-brief: A British researcher who became a hero after he stopped the WannaCry ransomware from spreading globally has been apprehended in Nevada and charged with distributing the Kronos banking trojan in the U.S. between July 2014 and July 2015.
Sea Level Rise, Runaway AI and Grid Hacks: Why We Ignore Warnings about Preventable Catastrophes
In-brief: is it ever the case that things happen that “nobody saw coming”? Our guest on this week’s podcast would say “no.” He is Richard Clarke, a former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism for the United States and a veteran of four administrations, from President Ronald Reagan through to President George W. Bush. We talk about modern-day Cassandras: people who are warning about looming catastrophes, mostly in vain.
Richard Clarke discusses his new book Warnings: Finding Modern Cassandras to stop Catastrophes
Policy makers may worry about so-called “Black Swan” events – low probability occurrences that ‘nobody saw coming.’ But is it ever the case that things happen that nobody saw coming? Our guest on this week’s podcast would say “no.” He is Richard Clarke, a former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism for the United States and a veteran of four administrations, from President Ronald Reagan through to President George W. Bush. In his new book, Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, Richard and co-author R.P. Eddy interview people who warned fruitlessly about pending disasters like 9/11 and the Fukashima nuclear power plant, as well as those who are warning us today about threats that elected officials, government experts and policy makers are ignoring.
Jeep Hackers Miller and Valasek Reunite at Autonomous Driving Start-up Cruise
In-brief: Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek are re-uniting at autonomous driving start-up Cruise after both, independently leaving ride hailing firm Uber in recent months.
